Viceroyalty According to the first book of the
Cabildo de Lima, the city had two
mayors on the fourth day of its foundation:
Nicolás de Ribera and Juan Tello de Guzmán. At first the council worked at the
House of Pizarro and then moved to the residence of the Judges Andrés de Cianca and Pedro Maldonado, then the local municipality, before settling in the last weeks of October 1535 on land owned by the supplier García de Salcedo, where the
Archbishop's Palace of Lima currently stands. However, because more space was needed for the
Cathedral of Lima, the council moved in 1548 to land owned by
Hernando Pizarro, the huaca of the chapter that had a pen of
llamas, and this is where the current municipal building is located. The colonial town hall building was simple and the story of its construction has been bumpy. The master Diego de Torres was asked to build the first building of the Cabildo de Lima and in 1549 began the work quickly, with two black slaves acquired especially to strengthen his work, because I had finished before the arrival of
Antonio de Mendoza, fourth
viceroy of Peru, which was scheduled for September 23, 1551. The council houses built by master Diego de Torres were made with brick mold and high wood to
Spain. Soon after, in 1555, Cristóbal Garzón and Diego de Amaro took charge of the new building. During the following years some minor fixes continued such as woodwork and blanket.
José de la Riva Agüero then stated that the building had collapsed due to its faulty construction. The council members were present, from the old town hall colonial balconies,
processions,
bullfights and
auto-da-fé. The history of the Limean
Inquisition recalls the auto-da-fé held on Sunday, April 5, 1592, for which the council built a wooden platform. By 1628, the
historian and
priest Bernabé Cobo described in his
History of the Founding of Lima the Lima cabildo's appearance and said: The council building was characterized, between 1596 and 1604 (period of government Viceroy
Luis de Velasco y Castilla) by its open
gallery on the second floor, on the portals of scribes. According to
Manuel de Odriozola, the
Rímac River Bridge collapsed on the night of February 11, 1696, causing a flood in the
Plaza Mayor and the protocols they had them on the floor, not on shelves so scarce and expensive it was the wood rotted enforcement tools and foundations of chaplaincies and primogeniture, whose replacement was difficult and costly. But the greatest damage suffered by the colonial cabildo caused the
1746 Lima-Callao earthquake, which destroyed 90% of the civil colonial buildings. ==See also==